Some Corrections for de Pater and Lissauer, Planetary Sciences
Updated Second Edition, Second Printing, 2016
Older version? See errata for the
Second Edition, First Printing (2010)
or for the Second Edition, Second Printing (2011).
Updates also found in these previous editions are in black font.
Chapter 1
p. 10, Table 1.5. Many small inner satellites from Table 1.4 are
not included in Table 1.5. Polydeuces, Pallene are included in both
Tables, but Anthe, Methone, Perdita, Cupid, Mab, Naiad, and Thalassa
are absent from Table 1.5. The small saturnian moon Aegaeon is
missing from both tables. I'd also suggest removing the roman
numerals identifying the satellites from both Tables 1.4 and 1.5 as
most readers do not need these. If the roman numerals stay, at least
format them identically in both tables.
Chapter 2
p. 27, 1st paragraph of 2.2.1. In the two center of mass
equations, "m1" in the numerator should be "m2" and
"m2" in the numerator should be "m1". Credit: Jason Aufdenberg, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
p. 27, second column, third paragraph. The first expression with
27 is correct. Fix the second expression with 25 a few lines down. The
confusion arises because the mass ratio m1/m2 ~ 25.
p. 41, Fig. 2.20 (c). Bold, solid, and dashed arrows are undefined.
Chapter 3
p. 57, Eq. 3.6 and 3.7. A different symbol is needed here. The second
equation give the flux density in the z direction. The first has no
directionality. Eq. 3.41a,b are also directional.
p. 70. The two cited equations immediately above Eq. 3.80b should be 3.78
and 3.79. Credit: Jason Aufdenberg, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University.
Chapter 5
p. 239, Problem 5.4.I. Albite is favored at both temperatures for P
< 0.6 Gpa; high pressure is needed for Jadeite + Quartz to be
favored. See http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/equilibria/GibbsE.html. Presumably
the problem assumes a pressure/temperature relation in its definition
of Cp. This should be stated.
Chapter 7
p. 290, Eq. 7.10b. vector = scalar problem. (vector v -> scalar vperp?)
p. 295, Eq. 7.30 and Fig. 7.11. While correct and consistent
here, standard notation has MB aligned along the positive z
axis.
p. 295, Eq. 7.41. There is a quadrant ambiguity here.
p. 297, Eq. 7.51. The mo in denominator should be an m = γr
mo. E should be explicitly stated to be the Kinetic Energy.
p. 299, Eqs. 7.60, 7.61, and text between them. No need to
introduce a new symbol since μb = μB.
Chapter 8
p. 353. Halflife for 235U is mildly inconsistent in Eq. 8.6b and
Table 8.3. (Credit: Mahmuda Afrin Badhan).
Chapter 10
p. 437, Table 10.2. U. Maryland requests that the Deep Impact
encounter with Hartley 2 (Nov. 4, 2010) be added as the 5th close
comet flyby!
Chapter 11
p. 450, Fig. 11.5. Synchronous orbit for Uranus should be 2/3 of the way
from Perdita's orbit to Puck's (~10% further out than
plotted). Amalthea should be about midway between the synchronous and
Roche limits at Jupiter.
p. 469, text after Eq. 11.18a. The statement about mz being
even for horizontal forcing and odd for vertical forcing is only true
for Lindblad and Vertical resonances (as defined here) which are a
subset of all possible resonances. The correct statement is that
mz + m'z is always even (vertical frequencies
must come in pairs), where m'z is the coefficient of μ
on the right hand side of 11.18b, 11.18c, or their generalization.
Chapter 12
p. 505, Figure 12.21. "Error bars for the points" discussed in the
caption are not visible in the data.
p. 505, bottom of first paragraph. "This is in contrast to our Solar
System" (discussion of overstability). Is this fair? Of course the
orbital periods of exoplanets are more widely separated than that of
Solar System planets - they have large eccentricities and hence must be more
widely spaced!
Chapter 13
p. 520, Figure 13.5. The data does not come from the cited paper
(Furlan 2006) which is a paper on Spitzer IRS spectra only. Furlan
(2006) does include the IRS spectra of AB Aur, but HR 4796A is not
included in their sample. Credit: Jessica Donaldson.
p. 520, last paragraph. Although Beta Pictoris is a main sequence
star, the wording here seems to imply it is older. Beta Pictoris is a
main sequence star, but at ~12 Myrs old it is a very young main
sequence star. Perhaps change "main sequence" -> young main
sequence. Credit: Jessica Donaldson.
Last Updated: Jun. 17, 2016
Doug Hamilton
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